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Exploring Problem Solving, Reasoning and Fluency in a Geometrical Context

These tasks, which are part of our Jaunts into Geometry Feature, offer geometrical contexts in which to explore the three aims of the primary National Curriculum for mathematics.
Inside Triangles
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Inside Triangles

Age
5 to 7
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How many different triangles can you draw on the dotty grid which each have one dot in the middle?
Jig Shapes
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Jig Shapes

Age
5 to 11
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Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?
Poly Plug Rectangles
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Poly Plug Rectangles

Age
5 to 11
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The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
Seeing Squares
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Seeing Squares

Age
5 to 11
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Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

Square Corners
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Square Corners

Age
7 to 11
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What is the greatest number of counters you can place on the grid below without four of them lying at the corners of a square?
Nine-Pin Triangles
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Nine-Pin Triangles

Age
7 to 11
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How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
Brush Loads
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Brush Loads

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.

Stringy Quads
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Stringy Quads

Age
7 to 11
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This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!